What is "Mouse Acceleration"

[marat569]

I've never had an issue with mouse sensitivity/speed, and now I hear topics about "disabling mouse acceleration" [never done it, never needed too, never had an issue with my mouse]

 

Youtube is no help; can somebody shed some techquickie light on this "mouse acceleration" thing and how it differs from "mouse speed/sensitivity"

 

Thanks!

[A Bubble]

A horrible disease..

[Toddwjp]

I've never had an issue with mouse sensitivity/speed, and now I hear topics about "disabling mouse acceleration" [never done it, never needed too, never had an issue with my mouse]

 

Youtube is no help; can somebody shed some techquickie light on this "mouse acceleration" thing and how it differs from "mouse speed/sensitivity"

 

Thanks!

 

 

no mouse acceleration.

 

the distant you move your mouse moves your cursor the same number of pixels every time regardless of speed of mouse

 

mouse acceleration

 

if you move your mouse the same distant but at different speeds the cursor travels different distances. eg you move your mouse fast you go flying, you move your mouse slowly it barley moves

[Juganog]

i know it is athene and huge razer product placement but they explain what it is

 

[TheRetiredSlave]

Mouse acceleration is when the mouse increases it's sensitivity when you move it faster, and lowers the sensitivity when you move it slower.

 

With mouse acceleration OFF, moving the mouse a certain distance at any speed (fast or slow) will always cause the cursor to move the exact same distance.

With mouse acceleration ON, moving the mouse a specific distance fast will cause the cursor to move farther than if you had moved the same distance slowly.

[Notree]

Basically without Mouse accel your mouse movement is 1:1. With mouse accel on the movement will be different depending on your hand movement. Some people dont notice it. But if you want the most precise aim in fps games its better to turn it off. But there are some pros who use it just cause there use to it..

[A Bubble]

Lets say you moved your mouse 1 inch per second for 5 seconds and it moved the cursor 50 pixels. That's 10 pixels per inch of movement.

 

Now, lets say you moved your mouse 3 inches per second for 5 seconds, the logical answer would be that it moves the cursor 150 pixels. With acceleration this could be 200 for example, basically anything more than what you'd expect.

 

In competitive play etc, this can make a HUGE difference.

[MountainDrew]

It makes games ridiculously hard to play in my experience with it.

 

It basically measures how far you move based on how fast you move your mouse.  So if you move your mouse slowly 1 inch you will move that distance in the game, but if you move your mouse quickly 1 inch you will move farther than if you moved your mouse slowly.

 

It makes it a b***h to aim.

[marat569]

I have a 10$ Logitech M100 (I love it and will never replace it), i find all this DPI crap as a marketing money sink.

 

athene does not explain it that well. where is the setting so I can test this first hand

[marat569]

It makes games ridiculously hard to play in my experience with it.

 

It basically measures how far you move based on how fast you move your mouse.  So if you move your mouse slowly 1 inch you will move that distance in the game, but if you move your mouse quickly 1 inch you will move farther than if you moved your mouse slowly.

 

It makes it a b***h to aim.

 

Never changed mouse settings other than sensitivity, and never had a single issue.

[Timmy-P]

Yeah, it's already covered, though in terms of disabling it, you should find it in your Windows control panel called "Enchanced Pointer Precision," then you want to disable it further in any games that have support for it, and enable "Raw input" of the mouse.

[marat569]

Yeah, it's already covered, though in terms of disabling it, you should find it in your Windows control panel called "Enchanced Pointer Precision," then you want to disable it further in any games that have support for it, and enable "Raw input" of the mouse.

 

I tried it out, I'm used to super fast mouse sensitivities; so the acceleration is not that big of a deal, actually quite nice moving from one monitor to another (feel like a slug without it)

 

To each their own!

I guess I've mastered the "acceleration", i know how my mouse works.

 

Thanks for the explanation!

[MountainDrew]

Never changed mouse settings other than sensitivity, and never had a single issue.

Yeah, but in competitive FPS games I absolutely hate it.

 

I'd rather have my crosshairs move the same speed rather than at different speeds dependent upon how fast I move my mouse.